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The Obama administration may have delayed a key provision of the Affordable Care Act concerning businesses last week, but another provision that would affect those businesses' employees — the mandate that they must have health insurance next year — is still in place. The trouble is, the majority of those people are unaware of that mandate. To turn that disadvantage around, businesses, nonprofits and government officials are undertaking a massive outreach effort this summer, one that will accelerate as Oct. 1 — the beginning of the open enrollment period — approaches. It's a big job. A national poll of the people who could most benefit by the act,...

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The Obama administration may have delayed a key provision of the Affordable Care Act concerning businesses last week, but another provision that would affect those businesses' employees — the mandate that they must have health insurance next year — is...

Today's Watchdog column briefly mentions a new national report and survey about the top issues people are complaining about and the most-common scams that consumer protection officials are seeing. Here's some more information from that report, including the li

The child sex scandal at Penn State University reverberated Thursday on multiple fronts, touching everything from promotional buttons to superstar athletes to bowl bids as state and national media raced to keep track.
A vague post in an Internet forum...

The owners of Allentown's future minor league hockey team will make $6.7 million in rent payments over 29 years, cover up to $500,000 a year in capital improvements and make annual payments starting at $100,000 for the right to play hockey in and...

For years, Michelle and David Olson relied on oil to heat their 2,600-square-foot home on the west end of Allentown at a cost of around $350 per month.
"And it kept going up," Michelle Olson said.
Olson threw a neighborhood party after she...

Just because he's dead doesn't mean Osama bin Laden can't continue disrupting the lives of ordinary Americans. Since he was blown away by elite U.S. troops on Sunday, we've been dying for details of how it happened. That thirst for ...

One of the first things I was taught as a reporter was to check the public notices in the newspaper's classifieds to find out what local governments were up to. Laws require boroughs, cities, townships, school districts and counties to ...

Good Sunday Morning, Fellow Seekers. We're coming to you this morning from the tropical redoubt, Isla de Capitol Ideas, where we're being fanned by the breezes blowing amongst the leaves of the bouganavillea. Little Miss Capitol Ideas is agitating for ...

The Union That Represents ... ... more than 5,000 state liquor store employees has started running a radio ad in western Pennsylvania against the main architect of a plan to privatize the Prohibition Era system. The new spot by Local ...

From the Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser comes this story of copyright infringement involving a big state university and a small Christian academy in Alabama. Lawyers for Penn State recently asked the Prattville Christian Academy to stop using the logo it devised

Good morning, Dan. I'd like to add my opinion about billboards to your--I'm sure--growing list. TEAR ALL THE DAMNED THINGS DOWN. That includes LED boards, rotating slat boards, and plain boards. (I'll exempt Times Square in New York, but that's a special case.

OK, technically this isn't about roadway or transportation issues. But hey, it's my blog, right? And you do have to drive to get to most restaurants. It saddened me to read in my colleague Ty Richardson's Jan. 22 "Retail Watch" column that The Galley restauran

Two agencies that handle organ donations in Pennsylvania are working together to raise awareness and sign up 150,000 new donors. The campaign is called Donate Life-PA. It's a collaboration between Gift of Life Donor Program, the Center for Organ & Recovery Edu

Good Wednesday Morning, Fellow Seekers. Lawmakers in the state House will get their first real crack at Penn State's leadership today since the Jerry Sandusky sex scandal became public late last year, as officials from the embattled school and three ...

If you have an unusual collectible or antique, it could get you an appearance on the “American Pickers” the documentary show about the world of antique ‘picking” that airs at 9 p.m. Mondays on History. “American Pickers” in its fourth ...

It probably won't shock you that a top source of complaints to the Watchdog is car sales. Customers have come to me with all sorts of problems with both new and used car deals, including issues with dealers failing to ...

The Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board will pay the streaming music service Pandora $21,000 between July 30 and Aug. 12 to reach new customers, the agency confirmed this afternoon. The money paid for 5.3 million "impressions" on the service, which allows ...

Pennsylvania’s reputation as one of the nation’s key electoral battlegrounds will be put to the test Tuesday as President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney fight it out for the state’s 20 electoral votes and, each hopes, a trip to ...

Marcell Cleinow spent 25 years working for other people in the restaurant industry. And when diners tightened their belts and curtailed eating out, he lost his job about a year ago as a chef at a New Jersey restaurant.
"They came to me and said we...

Ed Hale wants to buy the Baltimore Arena, but the city said the aging facility is not for sale.
Two years after his departure from First Mariner Bancorp, the bank he launched and turned into the city's largest, Hale finds himself on the outside looking...